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THE papers read at this Congress, which was held in London on July 17–22 under the presidency of Dr. Charles Singer, may be.classified in four main groups according to their subjects, viz., epidemiology, anatomy, pharmacy, and veterinary medicine. Among the papers on epidemiology special mention may be made of those by Prof. Jeanselme, on bubonic plague in the Middle Ages, in which a relationship between famine and plague was shown; by Dr. Ernest Wickersheimer on the black plague at Strasbourg in 1349, with extracts from a contemporary document;, by Miss M. Buer on the decrease of epidemic diseases in the 18th and early 19th centuries, a decrease attributed by her to improvements in agriculture, improvements in house and town planning and the advance in medicine; and an interesting account by Sir William Collins of Sir Edwin Chadwick, the father of English sanitary science. Other, papers of epidemiological interest were those of Dr. Torkomian of Constantinople on inoculation against small-pox by the ancient Armenians, of Dr. Belohlavek of Prague on epidemics in Bohemia in the Middle Ages, and of Dr. Neveu of Paris on plague in Tuscany in the fifteenth century.
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Third International Congress of the History of Medicine. Nature 110, 296–297 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110296a0
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